NO GORKHA NO LAND

AS THERE IS NO COMMUNITY NAMED "GORKHA" THERE SHOULD NOT BE ANY LAND NAMED "GORKHALAND".

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

GORKHALAND MOVEMENT A CLANDESTINE INVASION

I AM QUOTING HERE THE FOREWORD OF THE ABOVENAMED BOOK WHICH WASWRITTEN BY DR.SIBADAS NANDI, M A, Ph D, EX PRINCIPAL OF ORIENTALCOLLEGE, KOHIMA, NAGALAND. HE WRTES: IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, IT ISSAID, THAT THERE ARE NO PERMANENT FRIENDS, NO PERMANENT ENEMIES BUTONLY PERMANENT INTERESTS. WHENEVER A COUNTRY NEGOTIATES ANINTERNATIONAL TREATY, THE OVERWHELMING CONSIDERATION THAT SHOULD GUIDEHER IN DOING SO IS TO KEEP HER SHORT AND LONG TERM INTERESTS IN VIEW.COMING TO INDO NEPAL FRIENDSHIP TREATY,1950 ; IDEALISM RARHER THANNATIONAL INTERESTGUIDED INDIAN GOVERNMENT TO CONCLUDE IT.THE TREATYENVISAGES NATIONALS OF BOTH INDIA AND NEPAL RECIPROCAL ECONOMIC ANDRESIDENTIAL RIGHTS IN EACH OTHERS COUNTRY. THE INTERNATIONAL BORDERBETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES REMAINS OPEN. THE RESULT HAS BEEN CONTINUOUSMIGRATION OF NEPALI NATIONALS TO INDIA. THE MIGRANTS IN MANY AREAS OFNORTH BENGAL HAVE ALREADY OUTNUMBERED THE LOCAL POPULATION LEADING TOETHNIC TENSIONS AND SOMETIMES VIOLENCE. INESCAPABLY THERE EMERGES APATTERN IN THE DIRECTION OF MIGRATION. A CURSORY GLANCE AT THE MAP OFNORTH BENGAL, NEPAL, BHUTAN, SIKKIM SHOULD FORCEFULLY SUGGEST THIS.THE INITIAL TARGET WAS THE PRESENT STATE OF SIKKIM. MASSIVE MIGRATIONOF NEPALI NATIONALS HAD SWAMPED THE AUTOCHTHONS PRIOR TO ITS MERGERWITH INDIA.. THEN AROSE THE QUESTION OF CITIZENSHIP, NEPALI NATIONALSIN LARGE NUMBER VOTED IN FAVOUR OF MERGER AND DEMANDED CITIZENSHIPAFTERWARDS. THEY CONTENDED THAT IF THOSE WHO VOTED FOR MERGER ITSELFWOULD BECOME ILLEGAL. THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA WAS THUS BLACKMAILEDINTO ACCEPTING EIGHTY THOUSAND OF THEM AS CITIZENS. THIS WAS ON THEFACE OF ONLY ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND SIKKIM SUBJECTS RECORDED AT THATTIME. THE STATE WAS THUS 'CONQURED'. THE NEXT TARGET WAS THE KINGDOMOF BHUTAN . BY AN IDENTICAL METHOD THE MIGRANTS POURED IN LARGENUMBERS INTO THE KINGDOM. SOON THEY ADOPTED THE METHOD TESTED INSIKKIM SUCCESSFULLY. BACKED BY NUMBERS THEY DEMANDED DEMOCRACY BEUSHERED IN AND THE INSTITUTION OF KINGSHIP BE ABOLISHED. THESE WERECATCHY SLOGANS. THE KINGDOM ACTED SWIFTLY. ABOUT SIX LAKHS OF THEMWERE DEPORTED. THEY ENTERED INDIA POSING AS NEPALI NATIONALS TAKINGADVANTAGE OF THE TREATY. HOWEVER, INDIA DID NOT HAVE A SIMILAR TREATYWITH BHUTAN AND THE IMMIGRANTS NEEDED TO BE REGISTERD AS SUCH. THISDID NOT HAPPEN DUE TO LACKADASICAL ATTITUDE OF THE GOVERNMENTS BOTHTHE STATE AND AT THE CENTRE. HAVING FAILED IN THEIR ENDEAVOUR INBHUTAN THE IMMIGRANTS TARGETED DARJEELING DISTRICT OF WEST BENGAL ANDTHE CHICKEN NECK JOINING THE NORTH EAST TO THE REST OF THE COUNTRY. BYTHEN THE DISTRICT HAD FAR EXCEEDED ITS CAPACITY TO ABSORB MOREMIGRANTS. THE MIGRANTS EROM BHUTAN TOOK SHELTER IN THE ADJOININGPLAINS OF NORTH BENGAL BECOMING IN THE PROCESS MAJORITY IN MANYADMINISTRATIVE BLOCKS. A MORE MILITANTS GROUP TOOK OVER THE LEADERSHIPOF THE IMMIGRANTS CHALLENGING THE LAWFULLY ESTABLISHED GOVERNMENT OFTHE STATE. THEY STOPPED PAYING ELECTRIC AND TELEPHONE BILLS, CHANGEDVEHICLE NUMBERS AND EVEN DECLARED THE DISTRICT MAGISTRATE ANDGOVERNMENT MINISTERS PERSONA NON GRATA IN THE HILLS. THE GOVERNMENTMAINTAINED SILENCE. BIPARTITE OR TIPARTITE MEETINGS WERE HELD WITH THELEADERS OF THE IMMIGRANTS TO FIND SOLUTIONS TO THE SO CALLEDGORKHALAND ISSUE WITHOUT BOTHERING TO REFLECT UPON THE REAL STATUS OFIMMIGRANTS ACCORDING TO THE TREATY OR THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNTRY.NEVER ONCE DURING THE TALKSTHE ISSUE OF CITIZENSHIP STATUS OF THEMIGRANTS WAS RAISED BY EITHER THE STATEOR CENTRAL REPRESENTATIVES. THEELECTION COMMISSION TOO MAINTAINED SILENCE. THE POLITICAL PARTIES SAWTHE OPPOTUNITY IN USING THE IMMIGRANTS AS VOTE BANKS AS SUCH WERE NOTINTERESTED IN RAISING THE ISSUE. THE MEDIA, BOTH ELETRONIC AND PRINT,WHO DEVOTE A LOT OF TIMEAND SPACE ON NON ISSUES LIKE SCANDALS REMAINEDOBLIVIOUS TO THE FRAUD ON OUR CONSTITUTION. IN THE MEANTIME THEIMMIGRANTS ENROLLED THEMSELVES IN THE ELECTORAL ROLLS OF THECONSTITUENCIES AND REAPED THE BENEFITS OF CITIZENSHIP AND ACQIREDLEGITIMACY. HAD THE BHUTAN EXPERIMENT BEEN SUCCESSFUL, A CONTINUOUSLAND MASS STRETCHING FROM HIMACHAL PRADESH TO ARUNACHAL PRADESH WOULDHAVE CREATED A NEPALI DOMINATED AREA COVERING THE ENTIRE NORTHERNBORDER OF THE COUNTRY. SET AGAINST THIS BACK DROP THE AMBITION OFCHINA OVER ARUNACHAL PRADESH CAN NOT BE SEEN AS ISOLATED PHENOMENON.

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Mr Tushar Pradhan, a senior journalist, now based at Kolkata (Calcutta), is writing a book based on research associated with the fake identity of 'Gorkha'. In the book he is going to prove that there is no community named 'Gorkha'. They are merely Nepalis. As there is no 'Gorkha' there should be no 'Gorkhaland' in India. If anyone wants to demand and establish such a 'Gorkhaland' he should do it in Nepal or elsewhere, never in India.

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